Why audiobooks have never been so popular
We are at the border in Finland. The year is 1985 and KGB Station chief Oleg Gordievsky is curled up in the boot of a British diplomat’s car. Two sniffer dogs are approaching, an intricate rescue operation, years in the making, is about to be rumbled with dire consequences. The scene builds and builds with unbearable tension. Then, a car horn blares behind me. The light had gone green and once again I had incurred the wrath of a Cork City motorist thanks to an audiobook.
Once contained within unwieldy cassettes or CD’s, the rapid pace of technological innovation has led to a surge in popularity in Audiobooks. The Publisher Association Yearbook put the medium’s growth in 2018 at 43% compared to the year previous with Amazon predictably gobbling up most of the pie with Audible.
